Film Theory Goes to the Movies: Cultural Analysis of Contemporary FilmJim Collins, Ava Preacher Collins, Hilary Radner Routledge, 2012 M10 2 - 320 páginas Film Theory Goes to the Movies fills the gap in film theory literature which has failed to analyze high-grossing blockbusters. The contributors in this volume, however, discuss such popular films as The Silence of the Lambs, Dances With Wolves, Terminator II, Pretty Woman, Truth or Dare, Mystery Train, and Jungle Fever. They employ a variety of critical approaches, from industry analysis to reception study, to close readings informed by feminist, deconstructive and postmodernist theory, as well as recent developments in African American and gay and lesbian criticism. An important introduction to contemporary Hollywood, this anthology will be of interest to those involved in the fields of film theory, literary theory, popular culture, and women's studies. |
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Pedagogy Resistance and Politics in
Celluloid Culture Henry A Giroux | 37 |
Free Enterprise and the Marriage Plot Hilary Radner | 56 |
Dudley Andrew | 77 |
Constructing Cultural Traditions Inside and Outside the Academy Ava Preacher Collins | 86 |
Identification Reflexivity and Contemporary Horror | 103 |
A Reading of Thelma and Louise Sharon Willis | 120 |
Truth or Dare and Paris Is Burning Ann Cvetkovich | 155 |
Ed Guerrero | 170 |
Female Agency and Bodily Mutilation in The Little Mermaid Susan White | 182 |
Hollywood Masculinity in the Nineties Susan Jeffords | 196 |
John Singletons Boyz N The Hood Michael Eric Dyson | 209 |
Of Terminators and Blade Runners Forest Pyle | 227 |
Eclectic Irony and the New Sincerity Jim Collins
| 242 |
Notes | 265 |
Cathy Griggers | 129 |
Cultural Meanings of The Silence of the Lambs Janet Staiger | 142 |
List of Contributors | 295 |
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